Re: "newer packages"

From: Bill Nottingham <notting redhat com>

To: EPEL development disccusion <epel-devel-list redhat com>

Subject: Re: "newer packages"

Date: Tue, 8 Sep 2009 14:40:29 -0400

Mike McGrath (mmcgrath redhat com) said:
> Should we have a stronger effort to replace older RHEL packages if we put
> them in their own namespace and don't conflict?
>
> This is sort of a nuanced problem since RHEL5 doesn't feel nearly as old
> as RHEL4 did at this point in it's release cycle. But still, people do
> want newer versions of these packages.
This seems like a good way to fracture the platform to me; sure, someone
may want a new MySQL, in isolation, but I'm not sure it really helps from
a long term-standpoint if other EPEL packages would then have to worry about
working with 3 versions of MySQL.
Bill